Gillian Tett
speaker
1,226 appearances
12 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 2 Sep
Gillian Tett’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Silverites.
I love that.
And if they had suddenly turned round at that point and said, Right, let's just go backwards and reinstate silver, could that have worked?
Would that have been even an option at that point?
Absolutely.
It's also an example of that infamous image of a flap of a butterfly's wing can cause a hurricane on the other side of the world in our sort of globally interconnected market.
It's worth remembering that, you know, you had a lot of financial globalization in the nineteenth century with all these chain reactions and unintended consequences.
Okay, so to set the scene before we go to the second half of this episode.
We have the US stuck on the gold standard with disastrous consequences for farmers.
who are facing an economic depression and
As so often the
in the world when you have an economic pain
Playing out, you end up with volatile, angry politics.
So populism is rising, finger pointing and xenophobia is arising, and out of this comes our second protagonist, who is a populist far-brand orator who comes out of nowhere to suddenly dominate Americ dominate American politics, a bit like, dare I say it, President Trump in 2016.
And we'll be talking about him and the parallels to today after the break.
So listen on.
So we're back.
So Liekut, we're now in the eighteen nineties after the disasters of eighteen seventy three have gone on to create an economic depression and a lot of pain and a lot of populist anger.
And none of the economic and monetary policies
problems that we've been talking about have actually been resolved.
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